Apparatus and method for editing document image

Abstract

An apparatus and method for editing a document are disclosed. The apparatus is installed on a first terminal, that is, a mobile terminal of a user, in order to edit a document of a document file stored in the first terminal. The apparatus includes a document storage unit and an edited document generation unit. The document storage unit stores at least one document file. The edited document generation unit extracts an area of interest from a document file stored in the document storage unit and displayed on a display unit of the first terminal, and generates an edited document. The document file is a portable document format (PDF) file.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method of editing a document, the method comprising:
 accessing, by a streaming execution unit, a second terminal of a second user via a first terminal of a first user; 
 visualizing, by the streaming execution unit, a second document file, which is selected by the first user in the first terminal and is a document file of a predetermined sharing folder of the second terminal, on a display unit of the first terminal in a streaming manner; and 
 extracting, by an edited document generation unit, an area of interest from the second document file visualized on the display unit of the first terminal in a streaming manner in response to a manipulation of the first user, and generating, by the edited document generation unit, an edited document; 
 wherein the document file is a portable document format (PDF) file, 
 wherein generating the edited document comprises:
 generating an editing space file that is an initial file used to generate the edited document; 
 generating a clipping mask used to extract the area of interest; 
 extracting the area of interest corresponding to the clipping mask from the second document file; 
 copying the extracted area of interest to the editing space file, and processing the edited document; 
 determining an entity attribute of the extracted area of interest; and 
 determining a copy region, which belongs to the extracted area of interest and will be copied to the editing space file, based on the security of the extracted area of interest and the entity attribute; 
 
 wherein determining the copy region comprises:
 deleting data corresponding to a part that belongs to the extracted area of interest and that corresponds to the confidential region, thereby determining the copy region; and 
 performing effect processing set by a user or predetermined effect processing on the region deleted by a data deletion unit; 
 
 wherein deleting the data comprises:
 computing a minimum square-shaped bounding box including a clipping line, that is, a boundary line of the clipping mask; 
 converting a page coordinate system, that is, a coordinate system based on a page of the second document file, into an image coordinate system, that is, a coordinate system based on an image present in the second document file; 
 converting the bounding box into the image coordinate system; 
 deleting data, corresponding to the confidential region included in a conversion bounding box and a part placed outside the conversion bounding box, based on the conversion bounding box converted into the image coordinate system; and 
 performing the effect processing comprises performing shading processing on the deleted region in order for a user not to view the part corresponding to the confidential region. 
 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the second document file is configured to include an entity corresponding to at least one of a letter, an image and a moving image; and 
 extracting the area of interest comprises extracting the area of interest from the second document file in a state in which an entity attribute are maintained so that the entity included in the extracted area of interest is able to be selected and copied. 
 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the clipping mask is formed by a clipping line that is a boundary line having a specific shape in accordance with user settings or predetermined settings; and 
 extracting the area of interest comprises extracting a region within the clipping line from the second document file as the area of interest. 
 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the second document file is configured to comprise a predetermined confidential region and a non-confidential region; and 
 generating the edited document further comprises determining security of the extracted area of interest by determining whether the extracted area of interest corresponds to either the confidential region or the non-confidential region.